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Here are some examples of aphorisms by an "old person" in an "old book".

Innocence is not necessarily virtue, and may be farther from it than vice.

Any fool may be innocent. It takes a wise man to be virtuous.

The very fiends weave ropes of sand, rather than face hell in pure idleness.

The man who tries to lead a double life is either a neurotic freak, or else the prince of fools.

By a man's ideal of womanhood we may know the degree of his manhood.

Men destroy their nervous systems for the tingling pleasures they feel as its structures are torn apart.

The purpose of knowledge is action.

Emotional excess is a woman's form of drunkenness.

In the quest for happiness, effectiveness rather than pleasure must be the real object of pursuit.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

The man who gets a windfall spends his days watching the wind.

"Life drives him hard" who has nothing in the world to do.

Quoted from "The Strength of Being Clean" by David Starr Jordan Founding president of Stanford University 1900

Not to Card, but Jensen

Yes, the link has changed, I can no longer find the aphorisms article.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. - attributed to Buddha

Not often true.

The correct one, and attribution:
When the student is ready, the student will realize the teacher has been there all the time. - Von Stocking